How to change the theme of Office 2013

This is absolutely dismal.  I bought Office 2013 and am reverting back to Office 2007 because the themes are downright awful.

The fact that Microsoft is not listening to its customers shows Microsoft is more concerned with serving its Shareholders than it is with serving its Customers, a terrible business model.  How long would it really take Microsoft to provide an Office 2010 theme option for Office 2013?  Is this some ploy to make Office 2013 so bad that people switch to the Office 365 subscription?

I think we all need to do a better job of supporting open-source software since the developers typically listen to people who use the software rather than stiffing them as Microsoft has done with Windows 8 and Office 2013.

It's been about 5 months since I first posted to this thread and have continued to monitor it in the slim hope that Microsoft might give some indication they heard and cared.  Obviously that is not going to be the case.  

Have finally decided to throw in the towel and go back to Office 2010, despite the features I like about Office 2013.  They simply don't outweigh the lack of themes that provide sufficient contrast to do my work.  Like others, I've mess up Excel pages because I couldn't see that they were still grouped before I started making changes, have dropped e-mails into the wrong folder, or moved files into unintended folders, all resulting in lost productivity.

Have told all the people that work in my office not to make to make the upgrade, because they'll regret it.

Up until now I have not had a compelling reason to switch to a Mac, for my personal computer. However, am beginning to think I'll make the jump when I buy my next laptop.  One caution for anyone planning to switch to Mac...don't waste your money on the MS Office software suite for the Mac...Microsoft didn't do Apple any favors.  It's another terrible advertisement for Microsoft.

Curt

Las Vegas

This has been open for quite a while now, and is still getting replies, all saying pretty much the same thing...

I'm still refusing to upgrade the network to Office 2013, and will continue to refuse until this issue - and it really is an issue, not just an annoyance - is addressed...

I'm currently looking into Google Docs or Open Office as an alternative to MS Office.

Please Microsoft, pull your fingers out!

They should do like with Visual Studio 2012...

OK deliver crappy bright white theme... BUT allow the community to build their own skins !!

For VS2012, the top-5 favourites custom skins alone were accessed  993509 times.  Everybody is satisfied.

Even Android free mail apps allows full customization of the GUI.

We'd expect a "professional-grade" and "expensive" product like Outlook to be customizable.

All employees in our company decided to stick with Office 2010, with black theme enabled.